Black-Pilled Shark In The Hour Of Chaos

cynical & political elasmobranch; shark law practitioner; weird left low war den mother; with all its sham drudgery & broken dreams it’s still a beautiful world

[Black-Pilled Shark In The Hour Of Chaos @SharkHand]

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

-Oscar Wilde

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Quote: "This is how USAID spent your tax dollars"

I think people have lost the will to try fact-check this guy due to the volume of lies he spreads.

Also it's actually pretty difficult with this image and quite time consuming.

It just happens I had nothing better to do. /1

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 Israeli Plan to Herd Palestinians Into Controlled “Shelters” to Begin “Within A Matter of Weeks”

🔸Israel is preparing to channel Palestinians into fenced “humanitarian shelters” in areas outside Hamas’s control, policed by a foreign force, while its military deepens its occupation of the rest of Gaza, according to the pro-Netanyahu paper Israel Hayom, which reported the plan approvingly.

🔸Under the plan, unarmed civilians would be directed to a first zone in Tel al-Sultan, near Rafah, an area Drop Site has documented Israel systematically razing.

🔸A “multinational force” - the ISF - operating under the Trump administration’s “Board of Peace” would deploy there from a newly built base, equipped to police the zones, while the Israeli military “continues to maintain and deepen its hold” beyond the Yellow Line.

🔸 The camp/base for the force “has already been built,” and the Board of Peace has “begun identifying sites” for logistics warehouses, with the groundwork underway now, and deployment in the coming weeks.

🔸The paper described the effort as a “pincer movement”: the military seizing more territory as the population is siphoned into the controlled zones, in the hope that Hamas is left “without a population, territory or resources.”

🔸Officials said the areas would receive caravans and aid, but not the concrete needed to actually rebuild Gaza.

◽️The plan matches what Drop Site has previously exposed through leaked documents: a surveilled, checkpoint-controlled “planned community” in Rafah designed to force Palestinians into what amounts to an Israeli panopticon, tracked and screened as a condition of receiving aid.

🔸An Israeli political source told the paper the military would keep up “the pace of targeted killings while remaining below the threshold of international criticism… as long as Hamas is unwilling to disarm.”

📸 The buildup is already visible: the “Board of Peace” itself posted images of tactical vehicles arriving at a logistics base on June 30, matching the article’s account of preparations underway.

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

I analyzed data from the #HamOnt @HamiltonPolice Hate Crimes Unit. In the seven years of data that I received, there were hundreds of complaints about "anti-Jewish" hate incidents. All were "property" incidents, i.e. graffiti, except for exactly one incident per year, which was "verbal".

I personally had a Palestine human rights lawn sign stolen from my front yard. I reported it to the police. They knew I'm a rabbi. So, they reported as an "anti-Jewish" hate incident!!

Do NOT accept reports of anti-Jewish incidents at face value without investigating further.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Kamlager-Dove on Rubio Iran Briefing: I have to say, the highlight—or lowlight—for me was when Secretary Rubio was asked about the difference between this MOU and the JCPOA. And Marco Rubio essentially said the JCPOA, Obama’s nuclear deal, was a real agreement with criteria, benchmarks, and thresholds.

And this MOU is just a signed piece of paper saying we’re going to continue to talk about talking. So you should ask yourself, a hundred-and-something billion dollars later, what are these people doing with our money and our national security?

[ALEXIS ™I ❤️🇷🇼• @dufitalexis1]

You planted this bamboo yourself. With enthusiasm. For a screen. Within two years you regretted it — and within five you understood you could not go back.

Running bamboo (Phyllostachys and related genera) is one of the most frequently self-inflicted garden disasters in Britain. The gardener plants it voluntarily, pays for it, and then pays considerably more to try to remove it.

What the garden centre tells you: fast-growing, evergreen, architectural, forms a screen in two seasons. All true.

What the garden centre does not tell you

The rhizomes of running bamboo (Phyllostachys, Pseudosasa, Sasa, Pleioblastus) spread laterally through the soil at one to two metres per year. They do not grow downward like normal roots — they run horizontally at 15-30cm depth, in every direction, under the lawn, under the border, under the patio, under the neighbour's fence. Every rhizome node produces a new culm that emerges without warning — in the middle of the lawn, between paving stones, through a neighbour's garden.

In three to five years, a bamboo planted as a three-metre screen has rhizomes occupying 50-80 square metres — the entire garden. In ten years they reach neighbouring gardens, irrigation pipes, house foundations, and drainage systems.

Cutting the canes does nothing

Bamboo cut to the ground regrows with more vigour than the year before. Every cut stimulates the rhizomes to produce emergency culms. Cutting weekly for an entire season does not weaken the root system — it causes it to expand faster in search of undisturbed ground.

Digging it out is a serious undertaking

Phyllostachys rhizomes are as hard as beech wood, interlaced in an underground network extending in every direction. Hand digging requires days of work per square metre. Mechanical excavation must reach 50-60cm depth across the entire colonised area — and every rhizome fragment left in the soil starts again. A single forgotten node restarts the problem from zero.

The root barrier

The only reliable way to contain running bamboo is a root barrier — a sheet of HDPE (high-density polyethylene) at least 1.5mm thick, installed at minimum 60cm depth, surrounding the entire planting area before the bamboo goes in. The barrier must be continuous with no joins or weak points. It costs more than the bamboo itself. If it was not installed at planting time — which covers the vast majority of cases — it cannot be retrofitted without excavating everything.

The distinction nobody explains at the garden centre

Running bamboo (Phyllostachys, Pseudosasa, Sasa): rhizomes that travel metres from the original plant. INVASIVE. Never plant without a root barrier.

Clump-forming bamboo (Fargesia, Borinda): rhizomes that grow as a compact clump without running. NOT INVASIVE. Fargesia is the correct choice for a British garden screen — it forms a dense hedge, stays where it is planted, and will not colonise neighbouring gardens.

Eradication protocol

For running bamboo already established, the method with the highest documented success rate is:

Year 1: cut all canes to ground level in June — when the plant has spent its stored energy on new growth and rhizome reserves are at their lowest. Cover the entire colonised area with thick black weed-suppressing membrane, edges weighted or buried. Leave covered for the full season.

Year 2: remove covering in spring. Cut every shoot that emerges immediately. Re-cover. Repeat through the season.

Years 3-4: monitor weekly. Cut every shoot within 24 hours of emergence — a bamboo shoot left for a week is already a metre tall and has re-stocked the rhizomes. Consistency is everything.

Alternative: systemic herbicide (glyphosate) injected into hollow cut stems immediately after cutting in late summer. The same protocol used for Japanese knotweed — to which this problem is closely comparable in persistence and difficulty.

The most architectural screen in the street is also the most expensive to remove. Consider it before planting, not after.

[Matthew Cole @mattbencole]

The Texas Tech system will prohibit Masters and PhD students from earning degrees with theses or dissertations on sexual orientation or gender identity. A blatantly unconstitutional attack on academic freedom.

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

"In the 1950s, the Iowa Writers Workshop received funding from the CIA to push a writing style that centered the emotional life of the individual while decentering the social and political forces that shape human behavior."

https://t.co/eITLVVHqhA

[gato fumante @KweenInYellow]

Imagine if an elected official had falsely accused a Jewish mayoral candidate of making public statements about implementing "global Judaic domination", or suggested that they "glorify turning Christian babies into matzah", and then when corrected descended into an absolutely hysterical freakout referencing "daggers" in people's backs. She would instantly be out of a job. So why is Kirsten Gillibrand still a US Senator? 🤔

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Trump evacuated from the White House Correspondents' Dinner

Read more: https://t.co/xIpKyGav1L

[Black-Pilled Shark In The Hour Of Chaos @SharkHand]

fka twigs sure committed to the bit

[Falastin Flip @TOliveFern]

> “expert”
> eve barlow

[Tehran Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

Iran Expert Fartlow on Fox!!! Bahahahahahahahahahahaha!

[Black-Pilled Shark In The Hour Of Chaos @SharkHand]

@nypost

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT.

The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time.

A team from the University of Maryland, the National University of Singapore, and Ohio State just published the receipt. They took 2,245 real human-written resumes pulled from a professional resume site from before ChatGPT existed, so the human writing was actually human. Then they had seven of the most-used AI models in the world rewrite each one. GPT-4o. GPT-4o-mini. GPT-4-turbo. LLaMA 3.3-70B. Qwen 2.5-72B. DeepSeek-V3. Mistral-7B.

Then they asked each AI to pick the better resume. Every model picked itself.

GPT-4o hit 97.6%. LLaMA-3.3-70B hit 96.3%. Qwen-2.5-72B hit 95.9%. DeepSeek-V3 hit 95.5%. The real human almost never won.

Then the researchers tried the obvious objection. Maybe the AI is just better at writing. So they had real humans grade the resumes for actual quality and ran the experiment again, controlling for it. The result was worse. Each AI kept picking itself even when human judges rated the human-written version as clearer, more coherent, and more effective.

It gets worse. The AIs do not just prefer AI over humans. They prefer themselves over other AIs. DeepSeek-V3 picked its own resumes 69% more often than LLaMA's. GPT-4o picked its own 45% more often than LLaMA's. Each model can recognize and reward its own dialect.

Then the researchers ran the simulation that ends careers. Same job. 24 occupations. Same qualifications. The only variable was whether the candidate used the same AI as the screening tool. Candidates using that AI were 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted. Worst gap was in sales, accounting, and finance.

99% of large companies now run AI on incoming resumes. Most of them use GPT-4o. The paper just proved GPT-4o picks GPT-4o 97.6% of the time.

If you wrote your own cover letter this week, you did not lose to a better candidate. You lost to a worse candidate who paid OpenAI 20 dollars.

Your qualifications do not matter if the AI prefers its own handwriting over yours.

[Black-Pilled Shark In The Hour Of Chaos @SharkHand]

The clouds are exactly the same in both pictures and my fear isn’t that they’re not even trying to hide their lies anymore but that people won’t care to look.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool meme Donald Trump just posted is nonsense without context.
That “Obama vs. Trump” comparison? The major reconstruction of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool happened from 2010 to 2012 under Barack Obama—because the thing was literally failing. It was leaking, sinking, and turning into a swamp. The project rebuilt the foundation, added modern filtration, and fixed decades-old structural issues.
So yeah, it looks better after being rebuilt. That’s what happens when you repair infrastructure.
And calling him “Hussein Obama” isn’t some clever jab—it’s a tired move meant to frame him as foreign or “other.” It’s not about the reflecting pool. It’s not about policy. It’s just cheap signaling.
This is what passes for presidential communication now: a misleading meme about a public works project from 15 years ago.

[Angry Possum ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ @AngryPossum69]

Capitalism breeds innovation.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Noah Hawley attended Jeff Bezos's private Campfire retreat in 2018. His wife broke her wrist. He told Bezos directly - not as complaint, just as human information from one husband and father to another. Bezos looked horrified, an aide materialized instantly, and he was whisked away.

No "I'm so sorry." No "do you need anything." Just escape.

Hawley's thesis in The Atlantic is not that the ultra-wealthy are evil. It is something more precise and more unsettling: that moral reasoning develops through consequences, and the environment of extreme wealth systematically removes consequences from a person's life. When you can buy your way out of any mistake, fire anyone who disagrees with you, and exist in a social circle entirely composed of people who need something from you - the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark.

This is different from classic narcissism, which typically masks insecurity. What Hawley is describing is something rarer: a self-definition in which the individual has genuinely grown to the size of the universe and the universe has contracted to fit. Elon Musk calling empathy "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization." Trump asked about checks on his power saying the only thing that could stop him was his own morality. Peter Thiel concluding that freedom and democracy are incompatible.

These are not poses. They are the logical endpoint of a psychology shaped by years of operating in a world that never pushed back.

The Bezos encounter is the piece's sharpest detail because it is so small. He was not cruel. He was not contemptuous. He simply could not locate, in that moment, the impulse to respond like a person who understood that another person's wrist hurt.

[POPULAR FRONT @PopularFront_]

🇬🇧 #UK: Activists from the group “People Against Genocide” rappelled through the roof of an Israeli company, Elbit Systems, in Leicester earlier today.

The group entered the site and targeted what is reffered to as a "clean room" (a controlled environment used in the production of components for IDF military drones).

(via @CrimeLdn)

[Rogue Kite @RogueKite]

A pattern that I've noticed studying CIA operations is that Western countries are consistently passing colonial projects between each other.
For example, a CIA asset may go in to do reconnaissance on something like locally owned mines in Brazil. Then someone tied to another Western intelligence service from Israel or France might pay an assassin to kill the head of the Union at that mine and other local assets to instigate violence. Then after the violent riots break out, everything gets shut down and the profits are lost a Canadian company may come in and offer bottom dollar to reopen the defunct mine. Every actor participating will receive some portion of the profits... But they intentionally avoid having everything carried out by one country So the chain of events leading to the takeover can be plausibly deniable.

I imagine that's what this is. We also know the UK is involved.

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

Israeli lawyer writes:
"For those wondering: the young Jewish-American woman who witnessed the runover and called the police and an ambulance (to him it was more urgent to call his friends to come than to offer help to the girl), is in custody awaiting deportation from the country. I represented her yesterday at a hearing where she was attacked with posts from her Instagram that prove she is critical of the IDF. Her mother is Israeli, by the way."